With each rainy season in Senegal come reports of large-scale flooding and equally large-scale damage. This year is no different, with above average rains triggering damaging floods that are currently affecting an estimated 100,000 people. Nearly the entire south-western part of the country has been...

Two-year old Korian Togola is lying in a bed at the health centre in Kati, in the Koulikoro region in Mali’s central west. A tube runs from her nose. This is how the doctors and medical staff are feeding her. Korian, like many children across Mali, is severely malnourished and her mother, Aissetou,...

When the Joaquin Enriquez Memorial Sports Complex was built in Zamboanga, a cityon the southern Philippines island of Mindanao, its architect could never have imagined it would be used for anything but sports. But in recent weeks, the stadium became a temporary home to more than 70,000 people, mostly women...

OCHA and its humanitarian partners have completed a disaster simulation across Tonga, Samoa and Fiji – the first time that such an exercise has involved multiple countries in the Pacific. The exercise is part of continuing efforts to strengthen community-, country- and regional-level emergency...